I'm sick......

[toddyboman]

My hunting property is split by a road .....The north side and The south side. The South side has a small creek that flows into a lake. We have had for as long as I can remember a crossing. It was large enough to drive our farm equipment across to gain access to the South Side. Which is where many of our food plots are....

We (Missouri) has had a TON of rain this year. LOTS of flooding. Generally our farm is not affected as we are not near any larger river.......This last storm dumped 6 to 7 inches of water in a matter of a couple hours...........Causing every creek around turned into a roaring river.......Anways here is our crossing now......










So now I have no way to get the farm equipment over to the south side to do any food plot work.......

[AaronS]

Looks like you need a few truckloads of rock there! Good luck getting it back in shape.

[hunter109]

i would make some concret walls at each end and then fill the center in with lots of #2 stone and then dirt and rock on top of it all

[dogdoc]

I have a creek that seperates the back 1/4 of my property. when i purchased the property i couldn't get my tractor to the back area. i hired a dozer man and he cut the ends off a propane tank and built a crossing. the next spring we had big rains and it looked just like yours. my neighbor came over with his small dozer and fixed it. i then used concrete blocks and concrete and built retaining walls around the edges of the propane tank. hasn't washed out since.

[92xj]

We had a slight access problem with out land in South Carolina, after some thinking the club came up with a good idea. You should like about doing this instead of trying to rebuild the ground that will give out again.

[dogdoc]

nice bridge. would hate for that to collapse when i'd be crossing it on my kubota

[92xj]

nice bridge. would hate for that to collapse when i'd be crossing it on my kubota

It wont collapse, it looks sketch but it is actually really strong. It has supports in the center sunk down in the river bed 12 feet. Plus both ends are concreted in and we also have cable support each side. During the fall when the rains come, that bridge will be 6 feet under water and it always makes it. We took it down last year and redid it, just to check everything, so far so good.

[dogdoc]

it looks very stable. i thought about building one of those but decided to go with the propane tank.

[toddyboman]

We had a slight access problem with out land in South Carolina, after some thinking the club came up with a good idea. You should like about doing this instead of trying to rebuild the ground that will give out again.

Looks good......but don't think it would hold up our tractor and implements. LOL


We are going to have to redo lots I'm afraid.
Down side is I am not sure we will have time to fix it all and plant our food plots in time for them to produce anything......Which sucks cause I have lots of RR bean seed, Whitetail institute winter greens, WI clover and some Biologic seed to plant.......Guess I will have plenty for next year

[wtnhunt]

That is too bad Todd, can certainly relate to flooding, we had our share here earlier on.

Looks like you need a tractor with a loader, sure you could find some dirt somewhere to fill in and pack around your culvert. Does not look like it would take too much.

[dbHunterNY]

I've got to decide on how to get across the creek on my new property behind the house. So far it has flowed out of control with the rain we've got, so I don't think I'll have to build anything too elaborate. I will have to get a smaller tractor across it though. I'd just fill it back in to get yourself back in with a loader if you've got one to be back in business with food plots. Then think through a better setup for the future.

[bfletch7441]

While it's open, you may think about buying and installing an additional pipe before backfilling it.

Ben